truckerbuster:
in local rag eadt.co.uk they want to do a trial no lorries in outside lane on orwell bridge here we go again carry on like this any 2 lane motorway will be next. car folk moaning about lorries taking to long to overtake my suggestion if you dont like lorries dont buy anything then eventually the roads will be free until they try and get some petrol
My Dads friend works for Suffolk Highways and he has had heard that the Orwell Bridge will be a trial. IF it works, Suffolk Highways will then try to trial it the full length of the A14 through Suffolk.
Won’t that be fun. Imagine the tail back on the A12!!
I’m sure when I passed my test I didn’t sign up for all this!!! I knew I would be treated like scum but Jesus!!!
Unfortunately the drivers who are complaining just don’t realise that we are doing our job to keep them in a job, fed and watered.
A driver who parks in our yard told me about a conversation he had in his local. A disgruntalled ‘gent’ was complaining about trucks on the A14 and especially overtaking. My friend tried to explain about limiters etc. The ‘gent’ wouldn’t listen the proceeded to ask why so many trucks and what we deliver?
A while later after a heated discussion the ‘gent’ brought up the subject of petrol stations and fuel protests. He couldn’t understand why when the last fuel protest was, there was no fuel. My friend said that the tankers didn’t deliver any fuel. The ‘gent’ said ‘well what about using all the underground pipeline. Thats how it normally gets there the tankers just top the petrol stations up’. My friend then replied ‘so you think that petrol tankers ride around all day doing nothing then?’ ‘Well mostly yes’ came the reply.
When my friend told me the I nearly pee’d my pants. Just goes to prove how dense some of the general public actually are.
where does the suffolk border start if your heading southbound on A14? That would the biggest mistake of all doing that me thinks as said before think of the tail backs - it would probably be like M20’s Operation Stack but on the A14 most day’s of the week and all because of one lorry at the front was travelling slow for what every reason.
VOSA/TC would probably sit in every other lay-by as well!!!
next he would probably of said he believed supermarkets have fields around the back and generate all food etc on site and thats how food is put on the shelf and not the fact thats why you see so many on the road - they fill up the shelves… .
Border starts at Newmarket (well Kentford actually).
Possibly thinks dairies have their own cows in meadows out the back and it’s anyones guess how he thinks sugar beet get’s to the sugar factories. Oh silly me it grows on trees in bags.
VALHALLA:
Border starts at Newmarket (well Kentford actually).
Possibly thinks dairies have their own cows in meadows out the back and it’s anyones guess how he thinks sugar beet get’s to the sugar factories. Oh silly me it grows on trees in bags.
and bread loafs are grown in the field…you dig them out like potatoes. they even come out pre-sliced and packaged…
One big drawback with this …
Toss pots from Tesco doing 40-45 mph and less on the dual…
Yes I will call them toss pots because this is what they do…
More noticeable on the A38 since the RDC opened at Fradley/Lichfield.
They want a fixed penalty for it , both dangerous and stupid.
An overtaking ban is fine but they will have to factor in extenuating circumstances for slow moving vehicles.
VALHALLA:
Border starts at Newmarket (well Kentford actually).
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Is’nt Newmarket in Suffolk
Read in CM a couple of weeks back, that Essex CC are contemplatingh an overtaking ban between Marks Tey and Hatfield Peveral on the A12. And are looking at stopping overnight parking in layby on said peice of road.
i take it the muppet in charge at the highways agency is missing a vital piece from his ideas of an overtaking ban in the sense that it was the highways agency and the prats in government that decided that all trucks should be fitted with a limiter, hence causing this problem of lane blocking in the first place, but hey what do us drivers know. the general public has no idea what its like to be stuck at 56mph for so long, perhaps if they were to introduce car limiters to 70mph they will appreciate what we have to put up with all day, they really must think we like sitting out in the fast lane for mile upon mile just to get a buzz out of holding car drivers up. Oh and before i forget, whats going to happen to our cousins from over the pond cause i dont know about you lot but i cant see them slowing down to stay in the slow lane when they have a boat to catch and geuss what? i bet the police wont even bat an eyelid at them cause its too much paperwork for them to do so i guess they will just get away with it like they do now with speed limiters! mind you i know a few local hauliers that need limiter checks. So lets get on even playing field with the foriegners first before we start bringing in riddiculous overtaking bans!
well i thinks its a rediculous idea, but sadly like others have said, a lot of drivers who refuse to back down may well be to blame, but its still a stupid idea, i often ignore the trail on the a14 near catthorpe so i may well do on the bridge too
Why do a lot of drivers sit in the middle lane for miles while overtaking?
It’s bloody ridiculous. Use the hills to your advantage instead of blocking the road. Then they wouldn’t think about overtaking bans in the first place would they?
yeah good idea then when you have a ministry check at your yard you can try and explain all the overspeed advisorys you got on your tacho analysis reports…frickin cool !!!
thing is guys and gals this no overtaking has worked in germany for years so they will just do a case study over there and say that will work ok here dont forget if it works for the rest of europe they say it has to work here
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